Sony chooses IBM POWER 7 CPU for PlayStation 4

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Ryusuken said:

zarx said:

Ryusuken said:
Its fun to speculate and all, but this is still a rumor, POWER 7 CPU has some of the CELL in there (IBM is using some of its best development results in its latest CPU's architectures, so there is some CELL in there too), and all in all, I will wait for true specs in about a year time, or at leat some leak from devs working on it (PS4 games or even Sony ' I leak like a old boat' type of we dont comment on rumors).

you are kinda wrong there the CELL has some Power parts and ofcorse IBM will use anything good they have developed but the achitecture is compleatly diferent and much better IMO.

CELL was made with POWER tech in it, its true, and now IBM stoped developing into POWERXCELL8i (I think...) tech, but it will still use some of its developed tech that they came with, thats what I meant. Some, if not a lot, of what was developed during CELL research and development will be in use in future IBM architectures, such as POWER7 and wahtever else comes later. THe completely different you say may mean they will implement and go further into into, making it easier to use. When the CELL came out, just a few CPUs were using more than 2 cores, now look, we have pretty much ewvery one using more than that. Its evolution, and now the devs have tools to use it properly.

 

wow i'm confused!

After your rasoning, all ibm cpu's created after cell, are cells too. Including xenon, the x360 cpu.

After reading the power7 specs, i came to the conclusion, the power 7 is more of a sucessor to the x360 cpu, cause it's lacking all cell typicall features, like SPE's.

But you could argue, the power7 won't won't incorporate any cell elemensts, cause it was deemed a failiure. This alone makes it the real cell successor. Lessons's learned!